Signed messages.

[Mike Kercher]

James,

Yours in particular come up as invalid.



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From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
Behalf Of James A. Pattie
Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 9:20 AM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: Signed messages.


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S Mohan wrote:
> Some of the recent posts have digital signatures. Outlook flagged an
> error and disallowed opening mails as it recognised contents were
> changed enroute. I've seen replies by others to these mails. Surmise -

> mail is going thro' ok for others or email client does not support
> signature verification.
>
> I'm guessing this is due to mailscanner on my mailserver. Nothing else

> in between would parse or change contents of mails. Is this true? If
> so, would mailscanner usage not go down once digital signature use
> comes into force?
>
> Bye
> Mohan
>


As long as you are only using PGP/GPG, the digital signature isn't
messed with since MailScanner adds text after the PGP Sign block.

If you are using a certificate to sign the message, then it does alter
the content since the certificate signs the entire contents of the body
and not just a block of it.

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James A. Pattie
james at pcxperience.com

Linux  --  SysAdmin / Programmer
Xperience, Inc.
http://www.pcxperience.com/
http://www.xperienceinc.com/

GPG Key Available at http://www.pcxperience.com/gpgkeys/james.html
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